annotation
annotation — 名詞
1. a brief comment, explanation, or reference written next to or attached to part o
註解；評註
附在文本或圖像旁的簡短說明文字
a brief comment, explanation, or reference written next to or attached to part of a book, document, diagram, or image, usually meant to help readers understand a difficult passage or to record what someone thinks about it.
Professor Liu's annotations in the margins explained every Latin phrase for her students.
劉教授寫在頁邊的註解為學生解釋了每一句拉丁文。
annotations in the margins (typical location)
The old Bible was full of handwritten annotations from three generations of the Cohen family.
那本舊聖經寫滿了柯恩家族三代留下的手寫評註。
handwritten annotations from + source
Xander bought a copy of the play with scholarly annotations explaining each Shakespearean joke.
Xander 買了一本附有學術註解的劇本，裡面解釋了莎士比亞的每個笑點。
Her diagram of the human heart had small annotations pointing to each valve and chamber.
她畫的人類心臟圖上有小小的註解，指向每個瓣膜和心室。
The library copy was covered with pencil annotations from a previous reader.
圖書館那本書上滿是前一位讀者用鉛筆寫下的註解。
- note
much broader and less formal; an annotation is specifically tied to another text
- comment
any spoken or written remark; an annotation is always written and attached to source material
- gloss
scholarly synonym, especially for explaining a single word in an old or foreign-language text
- footnote
specifically printed at the bottom of the page; annotation can sit anywhere
文法句型
annotation on/to + noun
annotations in + text
用法筆記
Most often plural ('annotations'). The container is named with 'in' (in the margins, in the text) but the topic is named with 'on' (annotations on the poem). Distinguish from sense 2: this sense is the visible note itself; sense 2 is the activity of producing such notes.
常見錯誤
2. the activity or process of adding short explanations, labels, or tags to a text,
標註；註記
為文本、圖像或資料加上說明或標籤的過程
the activity or process of adding short explanations, labels, or tags to a text, image, or set of data — for instance, marking each word in a sentence with its grammatical role, or labeling objects in a photograph for a computer to learn from.
Manual annotation of the medical scans took the research team almost six months.
人工標註這些醫學掃描影像花了研究團隊將近六個月。
uncountable: annotation of + noun
The company hires linguists for the annotation of training data used in language models.
這家公司聘請語言學家為語言模型的訓練資料進行標註。
annotation of training data (data-science use)
Careful annotation of each photograph helped the museum track every artifact's origin.
對每張照片仔細標註，幫助博物館追蹤每件文物的來源。
Modern annotation tools let several students mark up the same document at once.
現代的標註工具讓好幾位學生可以同時在同一份文件上做註記。
Priya spent her shift on image annotation, drawing boxes around every car in the traffic photos.
Priya 整個班都在做影像標註，為交通照片裡的每輛車畫上方框。
- labelling
common in machine-learning contexts; emphasizes attaching a category to each item
- tagging
lighter and more digital; suggests short keywords rather than full explanations
- commentary
fuller and more literary; the result is connected prose rather than separate notes
文法句型
annotation of + noun
annotation tools/software
用法筆記
Uncountable in this sense — say 'annotation is slow', not 'an annotation is slow'. Frequently appears as a compound modifier ('annotation tool', 'annotation task', 'annotation guidelines'). Distinguish from sense 1: if you can replace the word with 'note', use sense 1; if you can replace it with 'labelling' or 'tagging', use sense 2.